Ning Ken Author

Ning Ken, born in Beijing in 1959, is a visiting professor at Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. He was the executive deputy editor of October and is now a professional writer at the Lao She Literary Institute in Beijing. His major works include The Collected Works of Ning Ken (eight volumes) including the full-length novels Heaven-Tibet, The Masked City, Three Trios, The Ringed Mountain, and The Gate of Silence, the essay collections Beijing: The City and the Year, My Twentieth Century, and the non-fiction Zhong-guancun Notes. He has been nominated for the Lao She Literary Award, the first Shi Nai'an Literary Award, the seventh Lu Xun Literary Award, the 2014 Asia Weekly Top Ten Novels, the 2017 China Good Book Award, the first Hong Kong Dream of the Red Chamber Award, and the U.S. Newman Literary Award. His works have been translated into Czech, English, French, and Italian. James Trapp has published China-related books on language, astrology, science and technology. His translation works include new versions of The Art of War and The Daodejing. Much of his work revolves around integrating the study of Chinese language and culture, and breaking down barriers of cultural misunderstanding that still persist.